JPS60192531A - Apparatus for stuffing poultry into box or container - Google Patents

Abstract

Device for packing poultry in a box comprising an endless belt (19) running over a plurality of rolls (14-18) with horizontal axles and provided with spaced apart rows of fingers (20), which are hingedly connected with the belt (19) said belt (19) having an upwardly running part at which the fingers project forwardly and move from the floor with the belt and the picked-up poultry upwardly said poultry in normal position being taken over by a series of substantially horizontal guide cams at the level of the top reverse rol (15) at which level the fingers are withdrawn and move downwardly with the belt whilst the poultry is taken over by endless belts (27,29) which feed them to a feed regulating device (30) which discharges into a box (36).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for stuffing poultry into boxes or containers.

PRIOR ART This packing of poultry into boxes can be accomplished with a conveyor belt that runs close to the floor and drives the poultry, and as soon as the poultry advances onto said belt, it is loaded and transported to a transport container. It's well known. This device is not working properly.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION The object of the invention is a device which is particularly suitable for picking up and stuffing poultry collected on the floor of a room, e.g. a cage, for picking up the poultry without causing damage thereto and for picking up the poultry in a suitable manner. The objective is to create a device that allows the transfer of the material into a box or container.

Arrangement of the Invention The device according to the invention for achieving this object in the first place comprises an endless belt or the like running on reversing rolls with horizontal axles, said belt extending from near the floor upwards. The belt has a running portion, and further includes a plurality of protruding finger-like protrusions with openings between them, and the finger-like protrusions face in a direction away from the belt in the ascending portion of the belt. a pick-up device attached to said belt so that it can slide forward on the floor near the reversing roll at the bottom; a guide cam gripping between and extending to a conveyor belt positioned out of the orbit of the fingers: a feed regulating device at the discharge end of said belt and a container connected to said feeding regulating device; Contains a conveyor.

The fingers of the picking device grasp the poultry between the legs and pick it up. Each series of fingers thus picks up a row of chicks or the like. These fingers are then lifted by a raised part of the conveyor belt or chain, in which guidance is taken over by the fingers of the cam. In this way, the birds remain in their normal position and are further pushed past the cam by the fingers, until finally, after the fingers have been extracted from the cam, their The bird slides over the above cam onto the conveyor belt. The attachment of the fingers is such that these fingers slide forward over the floor or ground in inverted rolls at the front and bottom.

This means that the fingers are hingedly connected to the belt such that in the ascending part they are held by stops in a horizontal position pointing away from the belt and in the descending part. is adapted to be able to pivot towards said belt and in the return section has a curved guide element near the bottom reversing roll which guides the fingers depending towards the floor. This can be easily achieved.

Therefore, in the ascending part of this belt, the fingers are in a position to support the bird being picked up, but after passing the top roll, the fingers fall downwards towards the belt and It does not rotate downward any further until the bottom reversing roll pressure is reached, but the bottom reversing roll runs around the floor and crosses the floor under the front and bottom reversing rolls. Slide forward.

This guidance towards the floor can be controlled by a guide element, for example a plate extending towards the floor and ensuring that the depending fingers do not strike the floor. It is preferred that each belt have a lower portion near the floor that gradually extends toward the floor and that the guide plate follows this portion, preferably in a curved shape. This entire pick-up device can be arranged adjustable on a movable lower frame with a feed adjustment device and a conveyor of containers or boxes so that adjustment of the floor height and the like is possible. .

The feed regulating device according to the invention preferably consists of a rotatable disk into which the conveyor belt reaches and which side pressure facing the container conveyor. Preferably, the container has an endless wall provided with an outlet opening, said outlet opening comprising a movable door, and a sliding plate positioned between the outlet opening and the edge of the container.

A number of poultry are collected on the disk and transported in batches to a container or box through the opening and the sliding plate connected thereto when the door is opened. When the container or box expires, it is pushed out and replaced by another container. This can be done using a horizontal conveyor or a stacking device.

Preferably, the device is designed in such a way that the wall with the door is rotatable about the axis of rotation of the disc and the sliding plate extends over the entire width of the range of rotation of the wall opening.

This means that when the door is opened, the feed-conditioning device spills the flow of poultry onto the slide, which can transport them across the width of the box or container. are doing.

It is of course possible that the wall has two openings with associated doors and each opening connects a slide plate to the container.

The design of the door is such that it consists of two parts, the two parts being hinged to each other, and one of said parts facing the wall when viewed in the direction of rotation of the disc passing through the opening. the second portion is hinged to an edge of the first portion facing away from the wall and held in an angular position with respect to the first portion by a spring; for moving the door toward and away from the opening such that a second part slides on the wall soil against the direction of rotation during the closing movement upon contact with the wall at a point in front of the opening; The device is designed to be deployed. This means that it is impossible to crush the bird within the opening, as each time the door is closed, the bird is pulled away from the opening.

The poultry lifted by the pick-up device and conveyed to the conveyor belt consists of two transverse belts connected to the discharge ends of the cams, the respective working surfaces of which move towards each other and which are conveyed to a conveyor system consisting of belts positioned between each other and thus conveyed by said belts from said cam in the direction of the feed regulating disk. The stream of poultry, which is delivered each time by a series of fingers, is then conveyed in concentrated form to the central belt, which conveys the stream of poultry to the feed conditioning device.

EXAMPLES The invention will now be described in greater detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG.

The device illustrated in the accompanying drawings consists of a lower frame 1 with wheels 2.

This lower frame carries in its fm direction f') a frame 3, which is also hingedly connected to the lower frame 1 at 4 about a horizontal axis and passes through, for example, the population and the like. Therefore, the height can be adjusted using a hydraulic cylinder X5. This frame can also rest on the floor 7 on wheels 6.

The frame 3 consists of a number of polygonal frame parts positioned in a vertical plane and each consisting of an elevated part 8, a horizontal part 9 and 10 and six parts 11, 12 and 13 standing at an angle to each other. It has become.

Codes 14, 15. Reversing rolls, designated i6, 17 and 18, are supported in or near the corners of these polygonal sections, and beyond said reversing rollers runs an endless belt 19.

It is, of course, possible to use chain wheels instead of rolls and to have an endless chain running transversely connected to each other by links beyond this chain wheel.

A series of fingers 20 are mounted on this endless belt 19 or chain and are hinged to the belt or chain at 21 and supported by a length of angle iron 22.

This support is provided in a raised section positioned between the reversing rolls or wheels 14 and 15.

However, after passing roll 16 the fingers 2° pivot downwardly as shown, and after passing rolls 17 and 18 and being guided by plate 23, these fingers 2° is carried towards the floor 1 by the force of gravity and from there slides horizontally on the floor from roll 18 to roll 14.

A large number of poultry can be picked up by the fingers 20 sliding on the floor, and during the process the poultry is then transported, a guide plate on the outside of the raised part To ensure that it is impossible for the bird to escape from the bird support on the piece 20.

Near the top reversing wheel 15, the guide is replaced by a cam 25 which projects into the opening between the fingers. Said cam supports the conveyance of the poultry over the reversing roller, which then descends so that the poultry passes over the sloped portion 26 of the cam 25 (conveyor bell).
27 Slide up.

Preferably, this picking-up is done in dim light or darkness.

The conveyor belts 2T run laterally towards each other with respect to the conveyor belts 28, and the conveyor belts 28 run longitudinally and reach an ascending conveyor belt 29. The conveyor belt 29 reaches a feed regulating device, generally indicated by the reference numeral 30, which includes a rotatable disc 3.
1 and a stationary rotating wall 3 provided with a discharge opening 33
It consists of 2. A guide plate 34 having a discharge edge corresponding to the width of the container 36 is provided at the discharge opening. The containers 36 form a stack as shown in FIG. 1 and are themselves orbited in such a way that each time an empty container is removed from said stack to the position indicated by 3T. can be carried. After the container 37 has been dumped, it is pushed to the right by the cylinder 38 of FIG. 1, and in this position the new stack 39 of dumped containers grips the flange of the rim. The vertical lifting and lowering ratchet mechanism 40 allows the bottom container to be lifted at any time.

The feed regulating device 30 has a door at the discharge opening 33, which door is connected to a first portion 41 which is hinged to the wall 32 at 42 and which is hinged to the first portion 41. , and a portion 43 held by a spring in an angular position with respect to portion 41. A cylinder r45 that can open and close this door 41 is provided.

FIG. 2 shows the door in the open position from which a large number of poultry can be dispensed through the opening 33. When the door is closed, part 43 moves towards wall 32 and pivots in the process with respect to part 41, so that this part 43
slides inside the wall 32 in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the disk 310 as indicated by arrow 46. This prevents the bird from being crushed.

The wall 32 is provided on its outer circumferential surface with a crown gear 4T that can be engaged by a gear 48 connected to a motor 49. By rotating the wall 32 and thus the opening 33, it is now possible to distribute a series of birds over the entire width of the slide 34 and thus of the container 36 when this door is opened.

It is of course also possible to provide the feeding adjustment device with several outlet openings reaching the container via a sliding track instead of one single outlet opening 33.

The containers are transported in this case by - unloading the stacks and - stacking the exposed containers. It is also possible, if necessary, to carry out stacking elsewhere, with a horizontal transport of the containers into the lower frame 1, and it is also possible to carry out the transport of the containers by hand.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side view of an embodiment of a device according to the invention;
2 is a top plan view of the embodiment of FIG. 1; FIG. 1--one lower frame, 2--one wheel, 3--frame, 4
--Hinge, 5-hydraulic cylinder s', 6-wheel, I-
One floor, 8-one elevated section, 9.10--horizontal section, 11.
12.13--Three parts, 14.15.16,17.
18-one reversing roll, 19-one belt, 20-one finger-shaped protrusion, 23-one plate, 24-one guide plate, 25-one cam,
26--inclined portion, 27--conveyor belt, 28--1 conveyor belt, 29-1 ascending conveyor belt, 30--1 sending and dispensing device, 31-1 circular plate, 32-1 stationary reversing wall, 33 - one discharge opening, 34- one guide plate, 35- one discharge edge, 36-- container, 37- one position, 38- cylinder, 39- one stacking electric body, 40- one raising and lowering ratchet mechanism, 41-1 first part, 42-1 movement V a, 4
3--one part, 45--one moving stop device, 47--crown gear, 48--one gear, 49--motor. Agent Akira Asamura

Claims (1)

[Claims] fil In a device for stuffing poultry into boxes or containers, an inverting roll (14° 15.1
6,17.18) An endless belt (19) or similar running thereon, said belt having a plurality of protruding finger-like projections [20] with openings between them; The protruding piece (2o) faces away from the belt in the rising part of the belt, but near the reversing rolls (14, 17) at the bottom in front of it, it faces the floor (7).
a pick-up device attached to said bell (19) so as to be able to slide forward on said bell; grasping between the fingers (20) near the top reversing roll (15); and a guide cam (2) extending to a conveyor bell (27°28) positioned outside the orbit of the fingers.
5) and; a feeding adjustment device (
30) and a box conveyor (36, 37) connected to this feed conditioning device. (2. In the device according to claim 1, the finger-like protrusions (20) are hingedly connected to the belt (19), and in the rising portion, these finger-like protrusions are used as a bell.) (
19) is held by a stop (22) in a substantially horizontal position and is capable of pivoting towards said belt in the descending part; In the case, a curved guide element (
23) near the bottom reversing roll. (3) The device according to claim 2, wherein the bell (19) has a lower portion (near the floor) that gradually runs toward the floor. In the device according to any one of clauses 1 to 6, the pick-up device with a conveyor is positioned in a frame (3), which frame is adjustable in height and has a movable lower part. In the device described in the section of the feed adjustment device (3o), which is mounted on the frame (1) and in this movable lower frame, the distribution device (30) consists of a rotatable disk (31), which conveyor bell into a rotatable disc) (29
) reaches the container conveyor (3) and the rotatable disc reaches the container conveyor (3).
It has an endless wall (32) provided with an exit opening (33) on the side facing the exit opening (33), said exit opening (33) being provided with a movable door (41, 42), A sliding plate 34 is positioned between the edge of the container (33) and the edge of the container (36).
equipment. (6) In the device according to claim 5, the shoulder (
A wall (32) having a wall opening (41, 43) is rotatable around the axis of rotation of the disc, and a sliding plate (34) has a wall opening (41, 43).
33) A device extending over the entire width of the range of rotation. (7) In the device according to claim 5,
A device having one or more openings with associated walls, each opening connected to a container by a sliding plate. (8) A device according to any one of claims 5, 6 or 7, in which the door consists of two parts (41, 43) connected to each other by a hinge. , one of said parts (41) passes through said aperture and wall (32) when viewed in the direction of rotation of said disk.
and a second portion (43) is hinged to the edge of the first portion (41) facing away from said wall and is in an angular position with respect to the first portion. The door is held by a spring and such that the second part (43) contacts said wall at a point in front of the opening (33) and slides on the wall (32) against the direction of rotation during the closing movement. The apparatus is provided with a device (45) for moving the object toward and away from the opening. (9) Any one of claims 1 to 8
In the apparatus described in paragraph 1, a conveyor belt arrangement between said pick-up device and said feed conditioning device is provided.
two transverse belts (27), said two transverse belts contacting the discharge end of the cam (25), and the working surfaces of said belts moving towards each other and positioned between each other. (29), said belt carrying away from the cam (25) in the direction of the feed adjustment disc (30).